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Posted on 11/12/2021 7:01:48 PM PST by ducttape45
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by a group of Navy service members asks a federal court in Texas to prevent the Biden Administration from enforcing the federal COVID-19 vaccination mandate. They also want the court to declare the vaccination mandate an unlawful policy and end it entirely.
The First Liberty Institute filed their legal action in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas on behalf of 35 members of the United States Navy. The 35 plaintiffs are assigned to the Naval Special Warfare Command and 26 of them are Navy SEALs, five are enlisted Combatant Craft Crew, three are Navy divers, and one is an enlisted Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technician.
The sailors presently serve at various classified and confidential locations, domestic and abroad, that they cannot disclose in a public proceeding, according to their lawyers, who added they also may not disclose their names in a public proceeding without creating a significant risk of compromising their missions, operational security, and personal safety.
In addition to President Biden, the Department of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy are named as defendants in the federal matter.
Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro issued a message to the Navy on Aug. 30 directing all active-duty naval personnel to become fully vaccinated within 90 days. The Navy notified sailors that failure to comply with the Navy vaccine mandate by the established deadline (Nov. 28, 2021) would result in immediate adverse consequences, up to and including court-martial (criminal) prosecution and involuntary separation from the Navy.
The lawyers argue the administration and the Navy have discretion when it comes to granting religious accommodations. They point to the Navy Military Personnel Manual sections pertaining to immunization exemptions for religious beliefs and other regulations, which provide, “[I]mmunization requirements may be waived when requested by the member based on religious objection.”
“A Navy spokesperson recently admitted that ‘multiple religious accommodation requests related to the COVID vaccine mandate have been adjudicated and none have yet been approved,'” said the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “The spokesman added that ‘[I]n the past seven years, no religious exemption from vaccination waivers were approved for any other vaccine.'”
“This disdain for religious vaccine accommodations contrasts with Defendants’ grant of certain secular vaccine exemptions,” the service members’ lawyers added. “The spokesperson admitted that the Navy has granted ‘five permanent medical exemptions.'”
All of the sailors suing the government object to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination based on what they call their sincerely held religious beliefs as members of various denominations of the Christian faith. They are Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Protestants and point to their religious beliefs regarding life and abortion.
“Plaintiffs are unable to receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines due to what they believe and understand is a connection between these vaccines and their testing, development, or production using aborted fetal cell lines,” their lawyers noted.
The lawsuit says the plaintiffs’ rights have been violated by the vaccination policy and they want an injunction to prevent the enforcement of the vaccination policies. They also ask the court to declare the vaccination policies unlawful and set them aside, in addition to requests for reimbursement for legal expenses and any other relief the court may deem appropriate.
Here’s another one for the Vaccine Mandate Ping list. If anyone wants to be added, let me know!
oh, no....THAT is NOT a “Final Stand”.....
oh, no....THAT is NOT a “Final Stand”.....
At some point someone is going to figure out how to sue. But so far the courts seem to have no appetite to stop the mandate of the non-vaccine that is required for the virus that is no longer a pandemic, and ignores huge swaths of “science.”
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Objection, calls for a conclusion, it is NOT the final stand.
CEO’s and government officials who realy get the jab need to get adverse effects for this to go away.
Either get a 40% useful vaccine or get a “court-martial (criminal) prosecution and involuntary separation from the Navy.” Hmm. This is a classic fallacy of false alternatives: either you support abortion or you are a rigid, close-minded reactionary.
The leaders in the US military are not very logical about the 40% useful vaccine.
Our All-American Heroes and Elite Warriors are being under-minded by their own government, Biden has declared war on them and we Patriots.
Boom - only God and his children will decide when the Final stand happens. All the non-believers and frauds will face the reality of His judgment.
What is the basis for their religious objection? It’s my understanding that the Catholic Church has endorsed the vaccine.
The Catholic Church also does NOTHING about condemning leaders who support abortion, the research on the vaccine used fetal tissue!!
More balls than the entire Republican “leadership” combined.
Can we replace Mitch, Kevin, etc with these men, please???
The Catholic Church has been nothing more than an ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION for the last 1000 years, and before you jump me; I AM A BAPTISED ROMAN CATHOLIC.
This current so called Pope is nothing but a woke communist agitator!
This corrupt communist pope will never stand between me and MY LORD JESUS and HIS FATHER, ALLMIGHTY GOD!
The Catholic Church has been nothing more than an ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION for the last 1000 years, and before you jump me; I AM A BAPTISED ROMAN CATHOLIC.
This current so called Pope is nothing but a woke communist agitator!
This corrupt communist pope will never stand between me and MY LORD JESUS and HIS FATHER, ALLMIGHTY GOD!
The Catholic Church actually teaches that the reception of a vaccine must be voluntary but there is so much confusion in the Church right now. There are many people who actually think the Church has changed her unchangeable teaching on abortion because of how brazenly it is ignored by Pro-Abortion “Catholic” politicians. Pope Francis says that gay marriage cannot be within the Church but many think he is only holding that as a temporary position because of how he says gay civil unions in the secular world are a good thing, which they are not.
It is not a vaccine at all; but a genetic therapy. And those receiving such therapy DO SPREAD THE DISEASE.
I support them. How can I support them. My house is their house.
Yes, from the time of Judas there have always been SOME grave sinners within the Catholic Church. Yes, a number of the words and actions of Pope Francis are problematic. But you can’t say the “Catholic Church has been nothing more than an “ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION for the last 1000 years” because there have been too many saints to issue from her in that time. Mother Teresa picking half worm-eaten people from the gutters of Calcutta issued from an “ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION”? The saints who hid Jews or died in concentration camps for opposing Hitler issued from an ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION”? The good Pro-Life Catholics in our country now, often also opposing vaccine mandates are products of an “ABSOLUTE PIT OF CORRUPTION”?
And there are many saintly Christians outside the Catholic Church. I don’t want to divert this thread on vaccine mandates into another divisive religious/faith fight, but please, some balance in language.
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